Aurora

Queen Aurora, also nicknamed as Sleeping Beauty and as Briar Rose up until her sixteenth birthday, is the protagonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film, Sleeping Beauty. She is the wife of King Phillip, mother of Audrey, and daughter of Queen Leah and King Stefan. She attended Ben's coronation in Descendants and has a stained glass window of herself in the Auradon Cathedral.

Background Information

Character origins

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On her christening, the infant Princess Aurora was put under a curse by Maleficent who declared that once the girl turned sixteen, she would prick her finger on a spinning wheel and immediately die, upon hearing this, Merryweather was urged into saving the girl by twisting the curse so that Aurora would only fall into deep slumber upon pricking her finger and would only awaken after true love's kiss.

Despite not wanting to, Queen Leah and her husband allowed The Three Good Fairies to take their daughter and raise them as their own, Aurora was raised by the three under the name of Briar Rose and the fairies took on the role of her aunts for sixteen years. While out, Aurora came across a young man who found her by following her voice while she had been singing, Aurora eventually promised to see him again that night only to be told by the fairies that she could not meet him again as she had been betrothed, she was then told of her true identity as Princess Aurora.

That night, she was taken back to the castle to reunite with her parents and after being left alone to grieve, Maleficent enacted the curse and placed Aurora under a spell, the princess walked upstairs and pricked her finger and fell into a deep slumber, Prince Phillip later woke her up using true love's kiss and the two danced together as Flora and Merryweather argued over the colour of Aurora's dress as they used their magic to change it from pink to blue.

History

The Isle of the Lost

Aurora appears in the eighteenth chapter. It is revealed that she raised Audrey to be a bit more isolated from the world, albeit in a different sense because Aurora wanted nothing more than to give her daughter a perfect childhood, free of evil and loveless.

Descendants

Aurora attended Family Day with her husband as the event was held at Auradon Prep with her mother also in attendance. During the coronation, Aurora watched as Ben was crowned king as she stood near Phillip, Queen Leah and Audrey, she watched as her mother and daughter apologized for being harsh towards Mal due to the latter being the daughter of Maleficent.

Descendants: Wicked World

Wanting to make Audrey feel better after the cupcake incident^[1], Mal paints a portrait of Audrey as Aurora. Audrey later tells the group that Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather taught her mother how to change clothes quickly and that Aurora passed the skill down to Audrey.^[2]

Descendants 2

Aurora and Phillip were given a stained glass window after Auradon was formed where it was part of the Royal Cotillion.

Audrey's Royal Return

Audrey mentions her mother is Princess Aurora to a spa worker.

Escape from the Isle of the Lost

One of the objectives in the Senior Quest is pick a flower from Aurora's rose garden.^[3]

Descendants 3

Queen Leah then told Audrey that Aurora was able to get a prince to save her even in sleep. After Mal, Uma and their group go into Audrey's room, Uma reads through Audrey's diary where she learns that Aurora was raised in the Fairy Cottage.

Gallery

A stained glass with Aurora and Prince Phillip used for Descendants 2.

Aurora as a baby along with her mother in The Isle of the Lost: The Graphic Novel.

Trivia

• Aurora's name means "sunrise" or "dawn" in Latin.
• She is called Aurora as her parents mentioned she filled their lives with sunshine.
• In the films she is only referred to as Aurora in Descendants when Audrey mentions her as her mother when she meets the Core Four, while often she is mentioned by her nickname "Sleeping Beauty" by others, being mentioned that way by Maleficent in Descendants and Carlos in Descendants 3.
• She is the second of the Disney Princesses to be royal by birth, after Snow White.
• She is one of the only princesses to have the shortest amount of lines to speak in her debut film with only eighteen lines and is also the first to have the least amount of screentime with also eighteen minutes, the only other one to experience this is Princess Tiana though she only had nineteen minutes in the film as a human before she was turned into a frog and after she turned back.
• She is most commonly seen in other media with the pink variation of her dress which she wore in Descendants.
• Descendants is the first time Aurora sees Maleficent in person as she never encountered her during the events of Sleeping Beauty.

References

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Characters Descendants: Mal • Jay • Evie • Carlos De Vil • Ben • Audrey • Lonnie • Jane • Chad Charming • Doug Disney Characters: Belle • Beast • Fairy Godmother • Snow White • Queen Leah • Maleficent • Jafar • Evil Queen • Cruella De Vil Disney Characters as cameo: Aurora • Prince Phillip • Cinderella • Prince Charming • Dopey • Mulan • Li Shang • Rapunzel • Eugene Fitzherbert • Aladdin • Jasmine Original Characters: Coach Jenkins • Mr. Deley • Dude the Dog • Museum Guard • Dopey's wife Deleted Characters: Aziz Music Soundtrack Songs: Rotten to the Core • Evil Like Me • Did I Mention • If Only • Be Our Guest • If Only (Reprise) • Set It Off • Believe Locations Auradon (Auradon Prep • Auradon Central • Auradon City • Museum of Cultural History • The Enchanted Lake) • Isle of the Lost (Bargain Castle • Bazaar • Frollo's Creperie • Gaston's Duels Without Rules • Ursula's Fish and Chips) Objects Maleficent's Scepter • Mal's Spell Book • Magic Mirror • Magic Wand • Spinning Wheel • King Triton's Trident • Glass Slippers • Magic Lamp • Golden Cobra • The Enchanted Rose • Golden Pelydryn • Evil Queen's Poison Apples • Ben's Signet Ring